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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
Between Cowboy Simulator 2.0 and Xcom Zwei: War of the Big Alien Brain Minds, I have little time for any other game.
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Ahhh, some of my best gaming memories are from the first Microprose UFO: enemy unknown
(X-COM: UFO Defense for our american friends) game.
Once, during a terror mission a fire and a granade destroyed a portion of building where the damn last Sectoid was hidden, and due to the smoke and fire all my soldiers were intoxicated and/or panicked and couldn't move and were losing health. During the last available turn before their demise I decided to risk it all: with one of the soldiers I primed a grenade and set the timer for 3 roundss. Then I threw it on the same tile another one of my soldier was. That second soldier picked it up, threw it to a third one and that last one freaking threw it towards the roof of the building, and blew it up and I won.
Also, UFO caused one of my worst (but hilarious) vg experiences: I always managed to keep alive the same bunch of soldiers from the start, and I kinda grew attached to them. Their time units grew and grew, and they were a force to be reckoned with. Then, after reaching the end of the TU bar around 240points, my favorite man, Yuzo Akira, HAD HIS DAMN TU VALUE RESET TO like 5 BECAUSE AFTER THE END OF THE BAR THE FU*KIG GAME WENT OVER FROM ZERO. My most mobile and killer soldier got crippled.
I didn't want to abandon him, so from that moment on I started training him in psychic warfare. It became a sort of super savant cripple, almost never exiting the skyranger and forcing almost every damn alien spotted by his teammates to drop their weapons with mind control.
I'm sure there's something positive to learn from this story.
Like, I'm positive I had way too much free time back then.
Thanks for listening.
See ya.
edit: from UFOpaedia : "Older versions of "X-COM did not have a cap and stats could reach 255 and then wrap back to 0. This could potentially cripple an otherwise good soldier
I wish i had internet back then.